Alban Berg: 5 Orchestral Songs for medium voice and orchestra After postcard texts by Peter Altenberg his study score edition comprises Berg's 5 Orchestral Songs after postcard texts by Peter Altenberg for medium voice and orchestra, composed in 1912. Description ( ) Close study of the score has revealed the remarkable sophistication and originality of the architecture of the Altenberglieder. The careful organization of motives relating Songs I and V is perhaps the most impressive aspect of this architecture; the relationship of the twelve-note passacaglia theme in Song V and the viola melody beginning at m. 12 of Song I is an adumbration of Schoenberg's serial technique of a decade later, while the harmonic relationship of two five-note chords at mm. 14-15 of Song I, which appear in reverse order at mm. 50-55 of Song V, defines an overall arch-form for the entire cycle. It is structural aspects like these that mark Berg's Altenberglieder as a work of particular importance in the historic development that culminated in Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique; that discovery, which has had such profound influence on composers ever since, can now be seen as the result of a search for structural coherence and comprehensiveness in which all three of the great Viennese, Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, shared. (Mark DeVoto) Hier ist Friede Nichts ist gekommen Sahst du nach dem Gewitterregen Seele, wie bist du schöner Über die Grenzen des All
SKU: BR.OB-5534-15
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Part. 8 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-15. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-15).
ISBN 9790004341766. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Written early, orchestrated lateThe cycle Seven Early Songs on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets was put together in 1928, more than 20 years after the composition of the individual songs. From the large amount of songs for voice and piano that he had written in his early years, Alban Berg selected seven of them which he then orchestrated. After serious consideration, he laid down a definitive sequence in which the tempo constantly alternates while the orchestral instruments symmetrically recede before picking up again. Once the piano and orchestral editions were printed, the Seven Early Songs quickly conquered concert halls in both scorings. They are still at home on the concert stages of the world today which is reason enough to present this work by Alban Berg in an Urtext edition following the Violin Concerto. The orchestral material can now be purchased for the first time.Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016.
SKU: BR.OB-5534-27
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Part. 4 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-27. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-27).
ISBN 9790004341803. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5534-19
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Part. 8 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-19. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-19).
ISBN 9790004341780. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5534-16
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Part. 8 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-16. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-16).
ISBN 9790004341773. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5534-30
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Set of parts. 78 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-30. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-30).
ISBN 9790004341810. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5534-23
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Part. 8 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-23. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-23).
ISBN 9790004341797. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.PB-5567-07
ISBN 9790004213773. 6.5 x 9 inches.
SKU: PR.UE018156
UPC: 680160521609.